{"product_id":"9781469109961","title":"The Prose and Verse of Alfred Lichtenstein","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Prussian Jew, killed in the second month of the First World War at the age\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof 25, 18 years before his father died, apparently of natural causes, and 28\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eyears before his mother and two of his siblings were killed by the Nazis,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLichtenstein left no overtly autobiographical writings. Some of his poems\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eclearly reflect his own painful experiences, both as a civilian and a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esoldier, and the figure of Kuno Kohn, the hunchback poet whose psychological\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eagony informs some of his fiction and a few of his poems, critics agree\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003erepresents their creator’s grotesque alter ego. His sarcastic remarks about\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elawyers would seem to reflect his own experience as a student of law. Some\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edrawings and a photograph of him have survived, and his contemporaries wrote\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eabout him sparingly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost of the attention Lichtenstein has received from posterity so far\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econcentrates on his poetry, which generally is classified as expressionist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eParatactic, stripped of most rhetorical ornaments, his short fiction,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebearing resemblances to Kafka, is at least as strange as his poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Xlibris Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47135628591344,"sku":"9781469109961","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781469109961_p0.jpg?v=1763698757","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781469109961","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}